D. Bin
2008
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The Chemical Engineer
Abstract
Ethyl myristate was synthesized by tetradecanoic acid and ethanol,catalyzed by nanometer Nd2O3 and accelerated with microwave irradiation.The effects of microwave irradiation power,reaction time,mole ratio of ethanol to tetradecanoic acid and the amounts of catalyst on esterification reaction conversion were discussed.The experimentation results showed that the esterification yield was more than95% under the optimum preparation conditions: the mole ratio of ethanol to tetradecanoic acid was 3.0:1(for 0.1mol of tetradecanoic acid),the quantity of catalyst was equal to 2.0% by mass of the total feed stock,and the microwave irradiation time was 15min with power of 400W.